IBM touts super-fast storage array for z15 mainframe
IBM launched its latest z15 mainframe today and gave it a new high-end all-flash array to play with. This is the DS8900F and it holds more data with...
Cisco gets ready for 64Gbit Fibre Channel
Cisco today announced MDS 9000 storage network director support for the coming 64Gbit/s Fibre Channel interface and NVMe-FC,. It has also added Ansible automation and end-to-end analytics across ihe...
HPE to make and supply Apeiron kit
A couple of weeks ago Apeiron and its VC backer trumpeted a global OEM deal with HPE. There is less to this than meets the eye.
Making its debut in...
Mellanox switches off Q2 with bumper results
Mellanox has delivered rising revenues and profits for the second 2019 quarter.
Second 2019 quarter Mellanox revenues of $310.3m were up 15.6 per cent y/y and profits of $38.43m were...
Your occasional storage digest, featuring PCIe, HPE and Qumulo, Tosh, and more
Let's end the week with some storage news stamps for your album. Slot in our PCIe v6 and v4 items, HPE snuggling closer to Qumulo, FileShadow adding file tagging,...
PCIe 5 goes live
The PCI-SIG has released PCIe 5.0, a specification that quadruples PCIe speed, with 16 lanes running at 128GB/sec.
Servers using the PCIe 5.0 bus should run applications faster as their...
SoftIron plants FPGA in network card to speed Ceph workloads
SoftIron has introduced the Accepherator, an FPGA accelerator that speeds up erasure coding for Ceph storage workloads.
This saves host CPU cycles for application work and reduces storage capacity...
Infinidat arrays go faster, play nice in hybrid clouds
Infinidat, the high-end array maker, today launched subscription programs, software with enhanced performance, extended array connectivity, and cloud-delivered array monitoring and analysis.
The company also signalled its intention to...
E8 practises scales for BeeGFS singalong
E8, the NVMe-oF array supplier, is backing up ThinkParQ’s clustered parallel file system to deliver files faster to high performance computing customers.
ThinkParQ's product is called BeeGFS, an open source...
Sitting on the dock of Bay Microsystems, Vcinity says data distance is no problem
Vcinity, a San Jose networking startup, has transferred 1PB of file data across a 4,350 mile, 100 Gbit/s WAN, with 70 ms latency in 23 hours and 16 minutes.
It...
Life after PCIe. Intel gang backs Compute Express Link (CXL)
Alibaba, Cisco, Dell EMC, Facebook, Google, HPE, Huawei, Intel, and Microsoft are working together on Compute Express Link (CXL), a new high-speed CPU-to-device and CPU-to-memory interconnect technology.
The CXL consortium...
Nvidia acquires Mellanox for $6.9bn
Nvidia is buying Mellanox, the Ethernet and InfiniBand data centre networking supplier, for $6.9 billion.
Nvidia will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Mellanox for...